I remember posting here a lot about a year ago, mainly before I discovered other fedi sites, but looking at here, was it always a news community? Most of the posts here are articles

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[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A year ago was a weird time, given we were dealing with the Reddit fallout that wildly inflated engagement, with people trying to get a feel for the platform (both Lemmy in general and Beehaw).

I tend to use !chat for things that aren't articles. Not that that has to happen, it's just how the communities I'm active in have evolved.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Actually, did many people stay from the reddit fallout?

[–] rozwud@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

I came here from the reddit fallout, but I'm really bad about posting and commenting.

[–] Thevenin@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did! 👋 Unfortunately, I mostly infodump about engineering in the comments, which is maybe not the kind of engagement we need.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Its a reddit style commintiy, infodumps are cool :3

[–] Pekka@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

I also started using Lemmy during the Reddit fallout, and stayed for a few weeks. After that I started seeing less posts that interested me, and I took a break from Lemmy for a while. And finally returned a week ago.

Even on Reddit I see less interesting posts now. Especially the amount of discussion posts also seems to be lower there now. The official Reddit app is also a lot better for reading than for writing.

[–] DreamyRin@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

came from reddit here, too. I often am too anxious to comment for a variety of reasons, so I mostly read. I try to post things when I get the courage to.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

DW, here is a really nice space :3

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

I stayed :)

[–] Thalestr@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I made a post about this nearly a year ago. It's unfortunate that this still persists here.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yea I agree

While i like beehaw. Its a good social network but a bad instance-most beehaw traffic from my experience is other beehaw stuff.

I get beehaw is meant to be safe, but maybe that has been taken to the extreme?

Don't get it wrong, I like this instance, but like you said, it feels kinda dead, I've ranted about this before I think

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I'd be happy to see Beehaw become more active, but not at the price of compromising the place's ethos. That's the whole point.

To be honest though I'm not sure what kind of thread would be nice to have in this format. It's a difficult question.

[–] Pekka@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is indeed quite a shift towards just posting articles. A lot of people don’t regularly post (at least it was like that on Reddit), and for those people, the articles are great.

It is hard to keep conversations active in smaller communities. As people will quickly stop posting new chats and questions if there are no replies.

[–] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Yea